Louisville Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Repair & Low-Slope
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspections across Jefferson, Bullitt, Oldham, Shelby and Nelson counties.
- Free inspection that follows the water to the splash block
- Permit pulled in our name wherever the work actually requires one
- Every run hose tested before we leave
Our Roofing Services in Louisville, KY
Residential Roof Installation
Two roofs can look identical from the street and still be different jobs. This is the one with no old covering to strip: new construction, an addition, a dormer, an ADU conversion, or a deck going back to bare wood.
Commercial Roof Installation
A commercial low-slope roof is a drainage assembly with a waterproof layer on top, and we scope it in that order. Drains, scuppers, overflows and falls first.
Roof Replacement
Read a Louisville roof estimate and you will usually find one number per square. That structure hides the part of the job most likely to be the reason you called, so ours breaks the work into covering, underlayment and eave metal.
Roof Repair
A repair call here is rarely a leak. It is tabs stripped off the west slope in a line of spring storms, a boot cracked at the collar, ridge cap worked loose, popped nails tenting a course, or one plane a hail core crossed on its way through.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt shingle is the right covering for most Louisville roofs and we install a great deal of it. It is also wrong for a specific part of a great many Louisville houses, and being clear about where that line falls is most of what this page exists to do.
Cool Roof Installation
Every reflective roofing number you will be quoted comes in two versions, and Louisville is hard on the difference between them. Ask which version you are being sold, because on a pitched roof here the honest version does not justify the premium.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Residential low slope in Louisville is not a commercial deck. It is a rear addition, a porch roof, a dormer cheek or a bay top, usually under three hundred square feet, tied into a steep roof on one side and a wall on another.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail reaches Jefferson County most years without making this a hail market the way Amarillo or Norman are. That difference changes what an inspection here is actually for.
Insurance Claim Help
We are a roofing company and not a public adjuster, and Kentucky draws that line clearly. We will not negotiate for you, read your policy back to you, or say what you are owed.
Metal Roofing
Metal is the product our approach points at most often, and we recommend it for parts of houses more than for whole ones. On a shallow rear addition or a porch roof it solves a problem asphalt shingle cannot be made to solve at any price.
Roof Leak Repair
We diagnose Louisville leaks from the bottom up, which is the reverse of how most crews work. Water showing inside a wall or a basement usually entered somewhere lower and later than the shingles, and starting at the ridge means an hour spent in the wrong place.
Roof Skylight Installation
We install skylights and we talk a fair number of people out of them, often in the same conversation. The reason is specific to the houses here, and it comes down to where the light is wanted and what happens to sit above that room.
Storm Damage Restoration
Ohio Valley storms build fast and arrive with very little warning, and what they take off a Louisville house is fairly predictable. Ridge cap first, then the rake edge, then the first two courses sitting above a gutter, and often the gutter run itself.
Tile Roofing
This page talks you out of something we sell. Clay and concrete tile are fine coverings, and we do not believe either belongs on a Louisville house that was never framed to carry the weight, which is nearly all of them.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind does not lift a Louisville roof out of the middle. It gets under an edge and works inward from there, which is why the repair almost always begins at a perimeter and why perimeter detailing is the first thing we quote and the last thing we would ever cut.
Two kinds of roof account for most of the calls we get in this city, and they fail in opposite ways.
The shotgun and camelback houses through Germantown and Schnitzelburg sit a few feet apart on narrow lots, run long and thin front to back, and nearly always carry a shallow ell or a porch roof at the rear that was never built to hold water back.
The Victorians up in the Highlands and Cherokee Triangle go the other direction: steep, cut into valleys and dormers, often still wearing slate, and what actually leaks on those is the metal rather than the material.
Louisville Roof Pros is a roofing contractor working Louisville and the Kentucky side of the metro, and roofing is all we sell: replacement, leak repair, storm and hail work, flashing, ventilation, low-slope membrane on rear additions, and the insurance paperwork that tends to follow the first three. Architectural asphalt shingle, standing seam and exposed-fastener metal, self-adhered modified bitumen on shallow planes. The inspection is free and photographed, and the written scope reaches you before anybody talks about a number.
Spring is what sets the schedule here. The same front that drops hail on a Tuesday afternoon usually pushes straight-line wind in behind it, and on 2 April 2025 an EF3 ran just under ten miles through Jeffersontown, along Watterson Trail and out past Beckley Station Road.
So hail bruising and wind lift get written up as separate dated findings with photographs, because an insurer reads them as two different losses and a claim assembled from the wrong one comes back denied.
Then the humidity takes the rest of the year. An Ohio Valley summer works a roof about the way a rickhouse works its barrels, hot afternoons and cool nights, moving every fastener and seam until one of them gives up, and a north slope in this climate never fully dries between storms.
If your water problem turns out to be a gutter, a leader dumping at the foundation or a discharge point MSD would have something to say about, we will tell you, photograph it and hand you the photographs. We do not sell that work, so there is nothing in it for us.
What Louisville Customers Say
The rear addition on our house had been shingled at about two in twelve by whoever owned it before us, and it leaked every spring. They took it back to the deck, put a self-adhered membrane on it and tied it into the main roof properly. Straight answers the whole way.
Storm took most of the ridge off and half a gutter run with it. They tarped it the same evening and had the metal and the covering back on inside a week. What I appreciated was the estimate being broken out, so I could see what the insurer was and was not covering instead of guessing.
I called about a skylight and they talked me out of it, which I did not expect. Explained that the slope on that section would put a curb right in the drainage path and showed me where the last one had leaked. We did a tube instead and spent the difference on new eave metal. Honest to their own cost.
Why Louisville Chooses Louisville Roof Pros
- ✓Chimneys, valleys, wall terminations and curbs are inspected and photographed one at a time, because in this city the field of the shingle is almost never where the water gets in.
- ✓Hail bruising and wind lift are written as separate dated findings, since an insurer reads them as two different losses and settles them that way.
- ✓When the repair is the right answer we quote the repair, including on a slate roof somebody else has already told you to tear off.
- ✓Shallow rear ells and porch roofs get self-adhered modified bitumen or a metal pan, and we decline to shingle anything under three in twelve.
- ✓If the water is coming from a gutter, a leader or the grade rather than the roof, we photograph it and tell you. We do not sell that work.
About Louisville Roof Pros in Louisville, KY
Louisville Roof Pros works Jefferson County first, then Bullitt, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer and Nelson: Jeffersontown, St. Matthews, Middletown, Shively, Lyndon, Shepherdsville, Mount Washington, La Grange, Crestwood, Shelbyville and the smaller towns out toward Taylorsville Lake. Residential replacement and leak repair are the bulk of it, alongside storm and hail claims, chimney flashing, ventilation corrections, fascia and soffit, and low-slope membrane on the rear additions this city is full of.
Our opinion, held firmly and now and then at our own cost, is that most roofs in Louisville get sold on the wrong question. People ask which shingle. Almost nothing here leaks through the field of a shingle. It leaks at a chimney whose soft old mortar will not hold a cut reglet, at a roof-to-wall termination on a camelback, at a skylight curb, at a valley that was woven when it should have been left open.
So there are jobs we talk people out of. A slate roof in Cherokee Triangle dropping a few slates a year does not need a tear-off. It needs a slater, new valley and chimney metal, and another few decades of being left alone, and we would rather quote you that repair than the replacement somebody has already priced for you.
We also will not overlay a second layer of shingles to hit a number and we will not coat a wet assembly. We would rather say that in April than argue about it in October.
How It Works
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Inspection From The Ridge To The Splash Block
We walk what we can walk safely, use a pole camera on the rest, then follow the water down: valley, eave, gutter, leader, and wherever it lands. We open the attic when there is access. You get dated photographs of every penetration and flashing plus a note on each downspout outlet and where it discharges.
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A Written Scope With Every Line Priced Separately
Covering, underlayment and eave metal are separate line items, never one number per square. That is deliberate. It lets you see that the leak you called about may be a blocked gutter outlet and not a fourteen thousand dollar roof, and it lets you decline any line you do not want.
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Permit Pulled, Work Sequenced By Weather
Where the job reaches the deck or the rafters, Metro requires a permit and we pull it in our own name so the inspection record follows the address. On a covering-only reroof it usually does not, and we say so rather than invoicing you for paperwork nobody asked for. We tear off only what we can dry in the same day, which matters in a valley that produces fast summer storms with very little warning.
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Flow Tested, Photographed, Then Closed Out
Before we leave, every gutter run gets water put through it from a hose at the far end, so you watch it drain rather than take our word. Repairs are hose tested at the failure point. You get the closeout photographs, the permit number where a permit issued, and the workmanship warranty in one file.
Commercial Low-Slope Roofing And Drainage For Louisville Properties
Louisville's small commercial stock is mostly low slope over masonry: storefront blocks on Bardstown Road and Frankfort Avenue, warehouse bays off Bluegrass Commerce Park, church halls, medical suites and apartment buildings across the county. On those roofs, drainage is the whole job.
We survey the existing drains, scuppers and overflow paths first, take moisture readings and core cuts where the membrane history is unclear, and price internal drainage corrections as their own line so a bid can be compared honestly against another bid.
We work in phases with each day's area dried in, because a tenant cannot close for a week and an occupied building cannot take a surprise. Because MSD's drainage service charge is tied to how a site handles its stormwater, we also flag when a roof change puts a property owner in a position to ask MSD about a credit.
- ✓Core cuts and moisture readings before any recommendation, so re-cover against tear-off is a measured decision
- ✓Sixty-mil TPO, two-ply modified bitumen or standing seam, specified by slope and traffic rather than by habit
- ✓Tapered polyisocyanurate, crickets and new sumps to correct ponding instead of coating over it
- ✓Drain bowls, clamping rings, strainers and overflow scuppers itemized as their own line
- ✓Phased tear-off with every day's area dried in before the crew leaves the site
- ✓Roof plans numbered by section so next year's inspection compares against this year's
- ✓Night and weekend work for tenants who cannot lose a trading day
- ✓Flood test at the drains and photographs of every completed termination at closeout
Towns We Cover
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do I actually need a permit to reroof a house in Louisville?
Usually not, and Metro says so itself. Louisville Metro Construction Review publishes that reroofing in general does NOT require a building permit and that there are therefore no inspections by the building department for that work - UNLESS structural parts of the roof are being replaced, the roof deck or the rafters, and then a permit is required.
The permit follows the DECK, not the covering. Two things change that answer. Eleven of the twenty-five towns we serve sit in five other counties where Metro has no jurisdiction whatsoever.
And one city here will not let Metro issue at all until it signs a Letter of Compliance, which it will not sign until every subcontractor holds that city's own business license. Give us the address and we will tell you which of those you are in.
Where the work does require a permit, we pull it in our own name.
I am in Cherokee Triangle. Can I take the slate off and put shingles up there?
Slow down before you order any material. Cherokee Triangle is a local preservation district, as are Old Louisville, Butchertown and Clifton among others, and inside one of those an exterior change is generally reviewed by the district's architectural review committee and needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before the work begins.
That review is a separate thing from a Metro building permit, and it does not care that a reroof usually needs no permit at all. Swapping the roof material on a street of slate roofs is exactly the change that gets looked at. Call Metro Historic Preservation with your address before you decide anything.
In our experience the conversation often ends with the repair being the cheaper path anyway.
Somebody knocked on my door the morning after the hail and told me my roof is totaled. Is that even legal?
Sometimes, and sometimes not. Kentucky issues no statewide roofing license, so nobody standing on your porch holds one and the license question is the wrong question here.
What the Commonwealth does have is this: as of 15 July 2026 the Attorney General may order every roofing contractor working in a declared-emergency area to register, post the certificate at each job site and produce it on request, with a ninety-day ban on in-person solicitation.
After a declared event, in other words, the door knock itself can be the problem. Ask to see that certificate, ask for a general liability certificate naming you and proof of workers' compensation, and do not sign anything that hands your insurance claim over to a contractor.
What does a new roof cost around here?
We will not give you a per-square number over the phone, because in Louisville that number is close to meaningless. A two-plane ranch in Jeffersontown and a cut-up Highlands Victorian with dormers, three chimneys and a rear ell are not the same product and are nowhere near each other.
What moves the price, roughly in order: how many squares, how steep it is and how many separate planes there are, how many flashing details exist, whether the deck has to be opened once the covering is off, and access, since a dumpster in the driveway and hand-carrying bundles up an alley in Germantown are different jobs.
Every one of those is a separate line on our estimate, and you can decline a line.
My neighbor got a whole new roof from the same storm and my claim was denied. Why?
Usually one of four reasons, and none of them is that your neighbor drew a friendlier adjuster. Hail damage has to be functional rather than cosmetic, which on metal and on some shingles is a genuine argument.
The date of loss has to match a storm the carrier can verify at your address, and two houses a street apart can have different hail histories. Your policy may settle at actual cash value instead of replacement cost, which on an older roof leaves a gap nobody mentioned when you bought it. And wind and hail are documented differently.
What we can do is photograph, date and describe the damage so that the claim is at least built on the right loss. What your carrier does after that is between the two of you, and we will not promise you an outcome.
What should go on the low roof over the back of my shotgun house?
Not shingles, in most cases. The rear ell on a shotgun or a camelback, and most of the porch roofs through Germantown and Schnitzelburg, sit well under four in twelve, and a shingle at that pitch is relying on an underlayment detail the original builder almost certainly did not use.
Our usual recommendation is self-adhered modified bitumen or a standing seam pan, either of which drains a shallow plane without asking a shingle lap to hold water back. It is also the single most common place we find the real leak on a house whose owner called us about the main roof.